diff --git a/tools/redditcrawl.py b/tools/redditcrawl.py
index 70069391..b6c6d3cd 100755
--- a/tools/redditcrawl.py
+++ b/tools/redditcrawl.py
@@ -69,8 +69,10 @@
 			text = submission.selftext
 			rawtext = text
 
-			text = text.replace("\\", "")
 			text = re.compile(r".*(\{.+\}).*", re.DOTALL).search(text).group(1)
+			# Test if it needs to escape the escape character. Usually happens on fancy mode.
+			try: json.loads(text)
+			except json.JSONDecodeError: text = re.sub(r"\\(.)", r"\1", text)
 
 			submission_json = json.loads(text)